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DI-I LANA SHEPLIE. Binding and Wiring Hat-Brims. No.52,0'|6, 1 vPatternedJunellenm'df.-

'Whwsma I Y 7 MWWX l I I lUNTD STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DE LANA SHEPLIE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T) HERSELF AND GEORGE E. HENRY, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN BINDING AND WIRING HAT-BRIMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 152,016, dated June 16, 1874 application filed January 23, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it kn own that I, Mrs. DE LANA SHEPLIE, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machinery for Binding and Wiring Hat-Brims, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, malring part of this specification, in which- Figure l represents a plan or top view 5 Fig. 2, a front elevation. Figs. 3 and et are each a sectional elevation, the former on the line A B, and the latter on the line C D of Fig. l.

The object of this invention is to dampen and prepare the hat-binding material more perfectly and uniformly than has heretofore been done, and thereby to make a great saving in such binding material, as also in time and labor, and to insure more perfect work, and, as a consequence, to produce little or no second quality or inferior finished goods. This invention consists of a damping device composed of a receptacle and retainer for liquid, a saturatin g or damping roll with an absorbent surface, for absorbing and furnishing liquid from said receptacle, a grooved elastic non-absorbent-surfaced pressure and guide roll, and a guide for the hat-binding material, all the parts being constructed, combined, arranged, and operating as hereinafter described. This invention also consists of a liquid storing and feeding reservoir, in combination with the damping apparatus, said reservoir bein g of any desired form or proportions, and provided with one or more feeding-orifices leading to the connected liquid-receptacle, and an interior air-induction tube with an air-inlet leading from the receptacle to the lower closed end of the tube. This invention also consists of the combination of the described damping apparatus with a hat binding and wirin g machine.

In the said drawings, A is the wire-reel, and B the binding-reel, suitably arranged to deliver the wire a and binding b to afolding device, G, and from this to a pair of pressurerolls, D, as usual. In order to apply the binding and the wire to the edge of the hat-rim, such sized binding material must be very evenly and uniformly dampened upon the side which is sized7 so as to partially liberate the adhesive substance contained therein, so that when folded and rolled onto the edge of the hat-rim with the wire in the fold, said binding shall instantly adhere tothe two sides of the rim, confine the wire, and form a smooth, even finish to the edge of the rim. On the other side of the binding the water must not be allowed to dampen it, as the effect would be to turn the binding white, and destroy the color and finish of the binding on the hat. In the ordinary machine for wiring and binding-hats, the binding material is fed loosely over a broadfaced roll running in water. lith such a device, by the constant waste of water the supply is proportionately exhausted, and the roll unequally dampened the binding will adhere only on certain places, and turns white when damp on the upper side; and this makes further waste and loss of material, time, and labor, even though the water beneath the roll is frequently replenished, and then there is a proportionate failure of dampening and adhesion between the time of replenishing the water and the time of its becoming partially or wholly exhausted. ,To overcome the aforesaid difficulties, and to insure more perfect work, I provide a water-receptacle, E, which may for convenience be connected with the side of the reservoir F; or the side of one may form the inner side of the other, as shown. guides el are secured to the opposite ends of the water-receptacle, and between these guides I place the journals of a fur1'1ishing-roll,H, which has an absorbent surface, and revolves in bearings at the lower ends of the guides d, and near the bottom of the receptacle. On

the top of the roll H is a grooved guide and pressure roll, I, with a non-absorbent surface,

Grooved the roll H entering and revolving in the groove in the top roll, which also has its journals in the guides d. A little to the rear of these rolls, and below or on the line between them, is a slot-guide, f, formed through the back K of the receptacle E. The reservoir F has an open-top air-tube, L, at the side next the water-receptacle. The lower end of this air-tube is closed, except an air-inlet, h, leading-to the water-receptacle. At one or both sides of the air-tube inlet, and opening into the water-receptacle, are one or more orifices, g, below the top of the inlet h, and through the end of the reservoir, which is also provided with a fillin ginlet, M, and a plug or cover with packing' to Aclose it air-tight. Y

In practice the reservoir is first nearly filled with water, say to nearly the top of the air-tube L, a portion of which water runs through the holes g into Vthe receptacle E, until the water in this is raised above the air-i11- let h. The reservoir may then be nearly filled up and the inlet closed.

through the slot-guide j', and between the rolls H and I, with its sized surface against the former roll, and to a folding device, C, where it is folded and receives a wire, m, from a roll or reel, A, and is run onto the rim of thehat between the rolls D, and in its passage from .its roll or reel to the finishing-rolls said bind- The binding material N, wound on the Vroll or reel B, passes" the air-inlet h is exposed, and air enters and passes upward through the open-top tube L into the reservoir above the water, and this allows water to flow through the holes g into the receptacle sufficient to cover the air-inlet and stop further supply of air to the reservoir, and consequent escape of water until again slightly lowered, as before described. While the binding material passes over the furnishin g-roll A, it is constantly guided and retained in perfect contact with the surface of the roll H bythe grooved guide-roll, which also presses said binding downward, and prevents either edge rising or ruiming off from the saturated surface of the roll H.

I regard 'the several combinations llereinbefore described both new and useful, and also of considerable value and importance.

Iclaiin as my inventionl. In combination, an absorbent-surfaced elastic supply-roll, H, a guide and pressure roll, I, a guide, j', and a water-receptacle for damping thebinding material, substantially as described.

2. The liquid storing and feeding reservoir F, provided with an open-top air-tube, L, an air-inlet, h, one or more feeding-orifices, g, and a filling-inlet, M, in combination with the receptacle E and rolls H and I, substantially as described.

3. The combination, substantially as specified, of the described damping device, con sisting of a water-receptacle, E, an absorbent surfaced supply-roll, H, and a non-absorbent A surfaced guide and pressure roll, I, with a hat binding a-nd wiring machine.

4. rlhc reservoir F and water-receptacle E, constructed and combined substantially Y as described.

. MRS. DE LANA SHEILIE.

Titnesscsz C. E. SHEPLIE, JOHN E. CRANE. 

